CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Basak, Paromita |
|---|---|
| Title | Using Open Geospatial Data to Analyze Climate Change Impact on National Food Security Factors of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) |
| Summary | Food security is considered as one of the most concerning issues of the 21st century while climate change persists to insert unpredictability in the system. With the growing demand of food due to population increase and change in climatic parameters that determines the growth, quality and yields of the crops, the need for properly assessing the changes and their impact is also growing. Geospatial analysis, remote sensing technologies, satellite data and open access data sources are proving to be highly potential sources for detecting the change and production side of food security analysis. This research detects the climatic parameter change and geospatial variation in Kyrgyzstan through using free and openly accessible geospatial and statistical data. Spatial analysis of several important parameters related to agricultural production such as, temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, crop evapotranspiration, land degradation and vegetation change were conducted in this research. The visualization of these parameters through maps showed the average increase and decrease through period by period comparison. Furthermore, the analyzed maps of these parameters were combined with the statistical crop data which delivered a thorough analysis connecting climatic parameter change and production sector of food security. This research spatially identifies the vulnerable areas due to land degradation and climate change which can certainly aid in policy making processes in the national and regional level while leaving a base for further field level research on the parameters and their impact on food security. |
| Supervisor | Lagutov, Viktor Vladimirovich |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/basak_paromita.pdf |
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